Costa and Paperchase branding have gone up on the side of the £10.5million Next store, set to boast three floors, a 10m high atrium and ROBOTS operating a click-and-collect hub.

RTS Construction Group, the Leicestershire firm behind the creation of the multi-million pound 'destination store', initially hoped to throw open the doors of the retail pile in time for the Christmas shopping season.

But bosses said the 'Beast from the East' - which brought heavy snow and freezing temperatures to the region early this year - hampered progress on the Next Home branch.

We're just a few months away from the opening of the new £10.5million development (Image: Penny Cross)

That means the development is not expected to open until early next year.

But it certainly seems like things are fast moving along now so the store can get off to a storming start to 2019.

There's a few big names ready to move into the Next store (Image: Penny Cross)

RTS Construction finance director, Anna Houghton, previously told Plymouth Live: "Works to fit out the newly built store are now underway, with a scheduled completion of early 2019.

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"Delays to completion were caused by extreme weather fluctuations during Feb and March 2018 – The Beast from the East was no friend."

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It will have a huge, 10m high, open atrium in front of three floors, two of which will be for shopping, and the top floor for storage. Escalators will take shoppers up to the upper level. There will be lifts too.

The 70,000sq ft of retail space will include fashions, a garden centre and a Next Home store. The building will include “room sets” so people can see what furniture would look like at home.

There will be a large Costa coffee shop at the front of the building, and a Paperchase concession inside. Next is in talks with more firms about adding further concessions.

The store will have a click-and-collect section – but it will be run by robots. Shoppers will be able to use a scanner and robots will deliver the goods.

The building will look swish with marble floors and limestone on the walls, and 40 per cent glazed, with huge skylights too.

'A destination store with premium finishes'

(Image: Penny Cross)

Mike Lambert, RTS’s project director for the Next build, said earlier this year; “This will be a destination store with premium finishes. The first in the South West of this size.

“Next wants a destination building, they are looking at areas near main arterial roads.